Roller-skate



(No Model.)

. D. A. HARRIS.

ROLLER SKATE.

No. 326,734. Patented SephZZ, 1885.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

ROLLER-SKATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 326,734, dated September 22, 1885.

Application filed March 23, 1885.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL A. IIARRIS, residing in Boston, Suffolk county, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Skates, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is aspecification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

My invention is shown as embodied in a roller-skate intended to be used in connection with dolls, as a toy, the object of the invention being to produce a' skate of simple and inexpensive construction.

Theinvention is embodied in a skate of that class in which the sole-plate is composed of a single piece of sheet metal, stamped or out from a sheet or plate by dies, forming a blank of the propershape for the sole-plate, provided with projections; and the invention consists, mainly, in the novel construction and arrangement of the said projections, a portion of which form the bearing-pedestals for the rolleraxles, and the others of which are employed for attaching the leather part of the skate or heel -pieee which is to fit over the foot of the doll.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a skate made in accordance with this invention; Fig, 2, a transverse section thereof through the toe strap on a largerscale, and Fig. 3 a diagram of the blank which constitutes the sole-plate of the skate, and has projections to make the bearings for the rollers and for attaching the leather portions or straps of the skate to the soleplate.

The main portion of the skate is made from sheet metal cut to form ablank, such as shown in Fig. 3, having a main portion, a, of suitable shape for the sole-plate, provided with projec tions I) b, which, when bent down at rightangles to the main portion a, as shown in Figs. 1' and 2, constitute brackets or pedestals, which receive the axles c, carrying the rollers (I, which may in the toy skate consist of small buttons ofwood or other suitable material. The toe-strap e encircles the sole-plate a, and is rovided with transverse slits e which are passed over the projections 1) before the axles care placed thereon, so that the projections Z) serve to keep the toe-strap in place on the skate-body without other fastening. The main portion a of the blank is also provided with a (No model.)

series of projections, g, which are bent upward from the sole-plate, and then bent outward and passed through slits hin the leather heel-piece h, which extends around the heel portion of the skate, (see Fig. 1,) after which they are bent down at the outside of said leather piece, as shown in Fig. 1, and preferably turned under the sole-plate, thus seeurely fastening the-heel piece to the soleplate.

A skate of this kind is of very simple construction, and may be easily and quickly put together, and, if desired, an ice-skate might be made in substantially the same manner, the projections b I) being employed for fastening the plate a to a runner; or a runner might otherwise be attached to a sheet-metal soleplate having straps or heel and toe pieces fastened thereto by means of projecting portions, integral with said plate, passing through slits in the said heel and toe pieces.

I clai I11 1. In a skate, the combination of a soleplate provided with projections at its heel portion with a heel-piece having slits, the said projections being bent upward substantially at right angles to the sole-plate, and then passed through the slits of the heel-piece and bent downward, and thus fastening the said heel -piece to the sole-plate, substantially as described.

2. Arollerskate composed of a metal blank provided with projections a portion of which are bent downward and a portion bent upward, combined with roller-axles connected with the downwardlybent projections, a toestrap provided with slits engaged by the downward projections at the toe portion of the skate, and a heel -piece provided with slits engaged and fastened to the sole-plate by the upwardly -bent projections, which are passed through the said slits, andthen bent downward upon the material of the heelpiece below the slits, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DANIEL A. HARRIS.

WVitnesses:

J os. P. LIVERMORE, H. P. BATES. 

